Mrs Leonard V. Kornblee, who was Zox's dealer at this period, supplied the following note on this work (6 July 1973):

'Orange Time belongs to the Arrow Spectrum series ... The paintings all had a thrusting energy, and included as well the faulted or up-ended corner triangles. I think of them as wrenched up monoliths ... There were quite a few really strong paintings in the Arrow Spectrum series, and the most sophisticated were the last, i.e. the "Time Paintings" of which I think you have the very finest. There were also Fast Time, and Green Time, which painting had tagging along to it several excellent studies which were in themselves beautifully realized paintings ...

'All these paintings were mulling around in Larry's head in drawing or small gouache on paper paintings during all of 1964. In the Autumn of that year, he went to a small college in rural western Pennsylvania, and while he was there (in the role of Visiting Artist) he painted about a dozen really strong paintings. Upon returning to New York, and during early 1965, the Time Paintings were made.

In the summer of 1965, Larry used the gallery as his studio ... While he worked here, he painted a few variants of the "Time Paintings" and a terrific long painting called Big Bang which is bound to turn up some time in short history.

'Scissors Jack paintings were the next progression after the paintings I've been talking about.'

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.770-1, reproduced p.770